The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 53
‘My children,’ she said, ‘all the years that I have lived in the world, I have never heard of a shift spun from nettles.
Who acts: children, years, I · What happens: say, live, not hear, spin · To what, where: world, shift, nettles · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, years, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 children | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 children | nmod:poss |
| 3 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 children | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 children | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 years | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 years | punct |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 years | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 years | det |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 said | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 lived | nsubj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 lived | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 lived | aux |
| 16 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 years | acl:relcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 world | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 world | det |
| 19 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lived | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 heard | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 heard | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 heard | aux |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 24 heard | advmod |
| 24 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 said | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 shift | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 shift | det |
| 27 | shift | shift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 heard | obl |
| 28 | spun | spin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 shift | acl |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 nettles | case |
| 30 | nettles | nettle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 spun | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | My children | year | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | live | present · perfect | all years | the world | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location | ||||
| 3 | not hear | present · perfect | I | of a shift | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of shift=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | spin | participle | a shift not said here | nettles | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from nettle=Trajectory |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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